Years before Jevon Wameling’s 9-month-old son went missing last month, Wameling was dating another woman whose baby died unexpectedly while they were sleeping, officials said.

The 13-day-old baby’s death in 2005 was ruled an accidental suffocation.

But after hearing about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the May 29 disappearance of Wameling’s son Levon, the previous baby’s mother, Jessica Pasho, called Utica police last week to make them aware of the prior incident.

Now, as police begin their second week of searching for Levon, officials on Tuesday say they plan to take another look at the previous baby’s death.

Although police consider Wameling, 27, a person of interest in Levon’s disappearance, Utica police Chief Mark Williams also noted that nobody has accused Wameling of any wrongdoing in the previous baby’s death.

“We have no proof that he did anything wrong then, and we have no proof that he did anything wrong now,” Williams said. “The mother’s not saying he did it, but now she thinks there might be some doubt after learning of Jevon’s connection to this missing baby.”

That re-investigation will have to wait until another time, however, since the focus now is for police to find out what happened to Levon, Williams said.

“Eventually, at some point we will look at this case,” Williams said of the earlier death. “Certainly, this is something down the road that we’ll revisit, but we’ve got a lot of work to do in this current case.”

In the previous incident, the baby was found dead between Pasho and Wameling as they slept in bed. In Levon’s case, Wameling waited two weeks to tell police that the boy disappeared after he said he briefly left the child unattended on the front porch of 748 Jay St. while he climbed into a second-floor window to unlock the front door.

On Tuesday, police continued their ground search around the area of East Utica where Wameling was last seen.

“I’m very proud of my people,” Williams said. “They really stepped up, they’re putting in long hours and everyone is really interested and dedicated to find out what happened to this kid.”